Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
From the opening segment of Van Halen’s sixth studio album, you can’t help feel the expectation ooze majestically from the American rock band.
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Sammy Hagar, Sammy Hagar & Friends. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
After four decades thrilling fans and audiences alike as one of the great American rock entertainers, Sammy Hagar has recorded new tracks and put a Hagar-like slant on a couple of absolute towering monsters in which the devotees and aficionados will be knocking themselves out for to have as part of the collection. After great and deserved success with bands such as the enormous fantastic Chickenfoot and the iconic Van Halen, Sammy Hagar & Friends relishes in the man’s ability and undoubted charisma to showcase that even now he is still one of the top draws of rock’s glittering establishment.
Dave Lee Roth, Skyscraper. 25th Anniversary Retrospective.
It had been four years since Dave Lee Roth and Van Halen had released the iconic rock album 1984 and whilst the three remaining members were on a creative and production high with their first U.S.A. Number 1, 5150 and were on the verge of securing the second of 4 top spots on the bounce, ‘Diamond Dave’ was also enjoying his new found status as a solo star. There are very few people that really deserve the moniker before their name, especially when they have been so entwined with a band that had hit such incredible highs but in Dave Lee Roth, the moniker not only fits, it simply oozes polish and craves the title.
Van Halen, A Different Kind of Truth. Album Review.
Originally published by L.S. Media. February 6th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
It’s been a long time coming and you pretty much know what you are going to get, but if you’re a fan of Van Halen it won’t stop you buying and revelling in the new album A Different Kind of Truth.